Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here he was now, relaxing in his slide-back seat, murmuring about how long the blade on that stick was going to be, how curved, how illegal. I felt a sudden, but distinct, distrust of Joe Cavanagh. Power corrupts and all that...
...Welssman was the only Harvard with a blade to winthree bouts, he being a specialist of the foil, Mr. Welssman had a tendency to turn his back on opponents now and again, checking his progress against the scoring machine, whereupon he was fetched several stout clonis from the rear. This may not have been sporting of Trinity's lads, but it was legal, and the citizen Welssman would do well in tougher company to guard his backside with more enthusiasm...
...Force of Momus, hurled it at the unsuspecting B-wen with such savage Impudence that, surely, and despite the Armor of Achilles, it must have cut him in Quarters. But Mammon saw just in the Nick of Time the terrible Danger and, asking the Form of a Blade of tall Grass, interposed himself near the Crest of the Hill. He halted the deadly Missile at B-wen's Feet, suffering a slight Bruise...
...once a prosperous farm village with red-tiled roofs, gas lamps and fertile coconut and orange groves that stretched as far as the eye could see. U.S. troops and Viet Cong guerrillas left it a wasteland. Chu Thao, a teacher from nearby Bien Hoa, describes what happened: "Not a blade of grass survived. The surface of the earth was as flat as the forehead of a bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood with its naked stalks pointing up to the sky. The dull...